3/03/2010 @ 6:00PM

Security Risks 2010

Security Risks 2010

Forty years ago, Alvin Toffler wrote that the world was entering a state of “future shock,” the disorientation that occurs when our environment changes faster than we can adapt to it. Today, Toffler’s phenomenon is happening in every networked country in the world: Our lives transfer from atoms to bits faster than ever, and we struggle to keep up.

When society’s acceleration gives rise to Wikipedia or the iPhone, so much the better. But advances also lead to corporations that collect more of our personal information than we realize and sophisticated spies that threaten companies’ intellectual property and nations’ security.

Here’s an in-depth look at the state of online privacy and information security.